Monica's posts are schizophrenic. S/he believes that Christians should simultaneously believe in hating and loving their enemies. Is that not schizophrenia?

Might be. It's true that we only know Jesus' words through the works of the apostles but in any case, in the Christian belief, Jesus is the Son of God, while Paul was a man like anybody.

Christianity opposed Judaism to the extent of stealing between 39-51 of it's books? Lest we forget the religion started out as a minor Jewish sect. It also doesn't remotely explain Jesus' two most important commandments being rooted in his Jewish roots. Matthew 22:37-39 (God & neighbour,) Mark 12:30-31 (God & neighbour,) Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (God,) and Leviticus 19:18 (neighbour.) Nothing new here!

No it's a contradiction.
I'm not the issue here. Men from Christianity's history put together the Christian canon, including books from the OT. A contradiction exists between the NT & OT. Newsflash plenty exist, plenty exist between the NT books too.

Depends on point of view. Man, God & man, messiah, son of God... Has an ability to change colour too.

even today ppl live In Galilee (beautiful place indeed), do u think they say "no we are Galileans we are not from israel?" there ppl who live in Judeans/Samaritan does it means they are not israeli who live in a place inside israel?

Classic mistake for a historian. Consider every historical period from the viewpoint of his era. When you consider a historical event you'll have to put yourself in the context of the time. At that time, Galilee and Judah were distinct.

And if Jesus happened to be a Judean, it wouldn't have changed a lot. He would've been one of those many Judeans/Jews who rightly emancipated from the Torah and still a great man. I am not a tribalist.

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Echoes, what part of me saying Christopher Hitches was brilliant is funny?

Because you consider yourself a right-winger and yet you're quoting a Trotskyist left-winger. Trotskyist who turned neocon, just like so many (Kristol, Perle, Wolfowitz in the USA but there also are a lot of them in Europe).

Trotskyism and Neoconservatism seemed to oppose each other but they have in common their hatred of the common men, the Poor and the Weak and hatred of the Nations. They are nomadic and internationalists.

Hitchens' support for the Iraq War totally disqualifies him. Everything he's said.

Classic mistake for a historian. Consider every historical period from the viewpoint of his era. When you consider a historical event you'll have to put yourself in the context of the time. At that time, Galilee and Judah were distinct.

And if Jesus happened to be a Judean, it wouldn't have changed a lot. He would've been one of those many Judeans/Jews who rightly emancipated from the Torah and still a great man. I am not a tribalist.

Because you consider yourself a right-winger and yet you're quoting a Trotskyist left-winger. Trotskyist who turned neocon, just like so many (Kristol, Perle, Wolfowitz in the USA but there also are a lot of them in Europe).

Trotskyism and Neoconservatism seemed to oppose each other but they have in common their hatred of the common men, the Poor and the Weak and hatred of the Nations. They are nomadic and internationalists.

Hitchens' support for the Iraq War totally disqualifies him. Everything he's said.

I don't consider myself a right-winger. I am very apathetic towards Politics as a whole.

Hitchens' support for the Iraq War totally disqualifies him. Everything he's said.

Wut? So one bad (in your mind) opinion or ideology by someone totally disqualifies every opinion that they hold and every argument they make?

So Aristotle is disqualified because he advocated wrong scientific principles regarding the nature of the solar system among other things? Isaac Newton is disqualified in science because he was religious?

I can use the same reasoning and say that many Christian Apologists' arguments about philosophy are void because they reject the fact of evolution and promote quackery such as creationism or intelligent design

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Matthew 5:17-19 -
'Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the law or the Prophets...'

He again referred to the earlier tradition of Israelite universalism (which also had its Prophets and not Judahite tribalism.

His Law was based on but two commandments and not the 10 commandments of the Mosaic Law: "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and Love thy neighbour like thyself."

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Wut? So one bad (in your mind) opinion or ideology by someone totally disqualifies every opinion that they hold and every argument they make?

Cool. So the Iraq War is but a detail in recent History? How many dead, dude? How much destruction?

How come that all those 1970's Trotskyist activists all turned neocons in the 90's/00's? Is that all just coincidence? They just rejected collectivism but they kept the most dangerous part of Trotskyism: the permanent revolution and the destruction of the Frontier /borders. They are the enemy. They hate the common men who are rooted in their cultural environment and die-hard patriots.

As long as you found the key to the origin of species, the Iraqis may peg out? Is that what you mean?

I take the safe way out and label myself as an agnostic. Buddhism is very interesting, though. I might be a Buddhist monk one day. Depends on my schedule.

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His Law was based on but two commandments and not the 10 commandments of the Mosaic Law: "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and Love thy neighbour like thyself."

'I have come not to abolish but to complete them. Not one dot, not one little stroke, shall disappear from the law until its purpose is achieved. The man who keeps them and teaches them will be considered great in the kingdom of heaven.'

Jesus' law was Jewish law. Both commandments are God's orders from the OT.
Mathhew 19:18-20 - Do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bring false witness, honour your mother & father, love your neighbour as yourself. These repeated Mark 10:19-20, omitting 'love neighbour...' and stating you must not defraud, again originally from Leviticus.

Argument against Jesus and the ten commandments is less than convincing. Jesus if anything beefed up the commandments, he certainly took a more conservative view. Do not commit adultery becomes, lustful looks = adultery.

The Jews invented racism in the OT.
Out of curiosity, where in the OT? Deuteronomy 7?

Some serious discussion going on in this thread! More serious than any tennis discussion.

Just to clarify, some poster here said that Muslims believe in Muhammad (peace be upon him), and Christians believe in Jesus. It sort of implies that Muslims claim that Muhammad (PBUH) is God. It's not true. He was a prophet just like we Muslims believe that Jesus was a prophet.

Also, I believe that most of the religions sprang from one fountainhead. Their basic teachings are true; as the time passed the differences between them became more apparent.

While I don't condemn atheists as they have the right to believe whatever they want to believe, it just makes me sad when someone doesn't believe in God. They don't know what they are missing. "God is a lovely treasure." He is the best friend you can ever have. He is the most Merciful the most Gracious Master you can ever have. He ignores so many of our mistakes, and gives us without any distinction. And I'm speaking through personal experiences. In my life's darkest hours He was the only one who came to my aid. And He continues to help me despite my shortcomings. Heck, I don't even do half the things I should be doing. It's just getting so hard for me to express my emotions.......So I would just stop.

Some serious discussion going on in this thread! More serious than any tennis discussion.

Just to clarify, some poster here said that Muslims believe in Muhammad (peace be upon him), and Christians believe in Jesus. It sort of implies that Muslims claim that Muhammad (PBUH) is God. It's not true. He was a prophet just like we Muslims believe that Jesus was a prophet.

that is true, in the and all 3 believe in god, Christians call him father, muslims call him Allah and jewish call him god IMHO

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